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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: "Dr. Rainer Kaluscha" <rainer.kaluscha@web.de>
Cc: Kevin Liu <kliu5@marvell.com>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
	Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Rainer Kaluscha <ich@rainer-kaluscha.de>,
	Philip Rakity <prakity@nvidia.com>,
	Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@gmail.com>,
	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>,
	Chao Xie <cxie4@marvell.com>, Kevin Liu <keyuan.liu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: add regulator_is_dummy function
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:22:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130107132216.GF4544@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50EABFFE.9070908@web.de>

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:30:54PM +0100, Dr. Rainer Kaluscha wrote:

> The problem is that *only* a dummy regulator is available which
> refuses to do any regulation at all.
> So sdhci/mmc should better behave as no regulator was available at all.
> This may happen if e.g. in a precompiled kernel of some linux distro
> regulator support (including dummy) is enabled but the machine
> running that kernel doesn't have a known hardware regulator. This
> results in sdhci/mmc failing to enable the SD card reader though it
> would work well without regulator support in the kernel.

Production systems should not enable the dummy regulators, it's that
simple.  They're a crutch to get things booting but they're going to
cause problems in production.

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-07 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-07  5:38 [PATCH 1/2] regulator: add regulator_is_dummy function Kevin Liu
2013-01-07  5:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] mmc: sdhci: fix dummy regulator issue Kevin Liu
2013-01-07 11:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] regulator: add regulator_is_dummy function Mark Brown
2013-01-07 11:36   ` Kevin Liu
2013-01-07 13:18     ` Mark Brown
2013-01-07 12:30   ` Dr. Rainer Kaluscha
2013-01-07 13:22     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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